President Uhuru Kenyatta is playing truant. Whether it is a ruse to revamp his waning popularity through the application of the law of scarcity, or whether he is stressed by carrying the burdens of 45 plus million ingrates remains to be seen.
However, it seems like he has lost control of the country. He knows it, but seems not to care. MPs hitherto unfit to even tie his shoe laces defy and talk back at him. To his detriment as pressure on him mounts, he has found solace in rewarding loyalists from his ethnic backyard.
The speedy gazettement of Justice Macharia Njeru’s appointment to the Judicial Service Commission where others have taken months and court orders to gazette, raised eyebrows. In a tweet, lawyer Ahmednasir Abdullahi pointed this out and alluded to George Orwell’s play ‘Animal Farm’ where select animals are more equal than others.